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...grocery business must be a good one," one of A & P's top men likes to say, "there are so many stupid people in it." John himself insists that he and George were almost the stupidest of the lot; they almost let the self-service supermarket go by without recognizing it as the biggest revolution in the food business since John's economy store...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red Circle & Gold Leaf | 11/13/1950 | See Source »

...stupidest thing women do is to continually succumb to changing fashions," grumbled Lady Astor in London. "What would we say if men changed the length of their trousers every year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Feb. 13, 1950 | 2/13/1950 | See Source »

...captured guerrillas were "better fed and housed than the refugees." Even so, she found them "a miserable-looking lot wearing broken shoes and remnants of worn-out uniforms, Yugoslav, British or Greek. The prisoners looked like the poorest and stupidest of peasants with nothing to hope for and nothing to lose under any social system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Off to War | 1/10/1949 | See Source »

Unless Americans breed with more science and less abandon, declared tireless Walter B. Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty), five generations from now they will be "the stupidest great-great-grandchildren of the stupidest great-grandchildren of the stupidest grandchildren of the stupidest children of parents now living...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...makes a very good living as CBS's curator of comedy, but he doesn't approve of radio. Longtime writer-director-co-star of Easy Aces, he is an expert on the medium he loves to pan: "Now take the rating system. That's the stupidest thing I ever heard of. What do you think would happen if a drama critic said Finian's Rainbow was a good, solid 10.4?" In the old days, Ace scornfully poohpoohed Easy Aces' consistently low Hooperating by explaining that "the people who are listening to me are so crazy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Aces Up | 9/8/1947 | See Source »

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